The Secret Concert
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Vitaliy and Lucy Hockings talk to Gogol Bordello’s frontman Eugene Hütz about the band’s recent secret gig for Ukrainian soldiers.
Frank Gardner brings us up to date on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant inspection and the offensive in Kherson.
And Irpin resident Oleksandr describes what it is like to have your home bombed then occupied by Russian forces, and how he’s going about rebuilding.
The series producer is Estelle Doyle. The producers are Clare Williamson and Arsenii Sokolov. The technical producer is Emma Crowe and the editor Jonathan Aspinwall. The assistant editor is Alison Gee.
Email Ukrainecast@bbc.co.uk with your questions and comments. You can also send us a message or voice note via WhatsApp, Signal or Telegram to +44 330 1239480.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, it's 194 days since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:10.5 | And on that very point, we got this message from Veronica. |
| 0:14.1 | She's in Rio in Brazil, and she messaged us this on WhatsApp. |
| 0:19.2 | I've been listening to Ukrainecast from day one of the podcast, congratulations on your |
| 0:23.7 | amazing work. |
| 0:24.7 | But I would like to ask Vatelli, how does he handle day after day this announcement |
| 0:29.8 | of an ever-growing number of days of Russian invasion? |
| 0:34.1 | His heart must sink every time it is all so incredibly sad. |
| 0:39.5 | You know Veronica, it's a bit like birthdays. |
| 0:43.8 | After a certain point in your life, you lose count and it becomes just a number, you get |
| 0:49.0 | used to it. |
| 0:50.8 | What I can't get used to is the daily horror of checking the news in the morning, and |
| 0:59.8 | it's a tale of more death and destruction, and that hits you. |
| 1:06.7 | And also, I can't really get used to speaking to my friends back in Ukraine, and how they |
| 1:13.8 | described the bombings, the air raid sirens, and yet last night, it was chatting to somebody, |
| 1:20.3 | and she said, oh, here come the air raid sirens again, and then electricity disappeared, |
| 1:25.5 | and she just couldn't get in touch with her. |
| 1:28.8 | And that instills such deep fright into you, and that's something you can't get used |
| 1:34.2 | to. |
| 1:35.2 | But numbers is just a number. |
| 1:38.4 | This is Ukraine, Dost. |
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